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There has been significant progress in emotional Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis technology in recent years. However, existing methods primarily focus on the synthesis of a limited number of emotion types and have achieved unsatisfactory…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Haobin Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Despite rapid advances in the field of emotional text-to-speech (TTS), recent studies primarily focus on mimicking the average style of a particular emotion. As a result, the ability to manipulate speech emotion remains constrained to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Deok-Hyeon Cho , Hyung-Seok Oh , Seung-Bin Kim , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Human speech goes beyond the mere transfer of information; it is a profound exchange of emotions and a connection between individuals. While Text-to-Speech (TTS) models have made huge progress, they still face challenges in controlling the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Guanrou Yang , Chen Yang , Qian Chen , Ziyang Ma , Wenxi Chen , Wen Wang , Tianrui Wang , Yifan Yang , Zhikang Niu , Wenrui Liu , Fan Yu , Zhihao Du , Zhifu Gao , ShiLiang Zhang , Xie Chen

State-of-the-art Text-To-Speech (TTS) models are capable of producing high-quality speech. The generated speech, however, is usually neutral in emotional expression, whereas very often one would want fine-grained emotional control of words…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Shijun Wang , Jón Guðnason , Damian Borth

Recent text-to-speech models have reached the level of generating natural speech similar to what humans say. But there still have limitations in terms of expressiveness. The existing emotional speech synthesis models have shown…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Yoori Oh , Juheon Lee , Yoseob Han , Kyogu Lee

Text-to-speech (TTS) has shown great progress in recent years. However, most existing TTS systems offer only coarse and rigid emotion control, typically via discrete emotion labels or a carefully crafted and detailed emotional text prompt,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Tianxin Xie , Shan Yang , Chenxing Li , Dong Yu , Li Liu

The Emotional Voice Conversion (EVC) aims to convert the discrete emotional state from the source emotion to the target for a given speech utterance while preserving linguistic content. In this paper, we propose regularizing emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Ashishkumar Gudmalwar , Ishan D. Biyani , Nirmesh Shah , Pankaj Wasnik , Rajiv Ratn Shah

While current emotional text-to-speech (TTS) systems can generate highly intelligible emotional speech, achieving fine control over emotion rendering of the output speech still remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we introduce…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Xin Jing , Kun Zhou , Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Björn W. Schuller

This paper proposes an effective emotion control method for an end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) system. To flexibly control the distinct characteristic of a target emotion category, it is essential to determine embedding vectors representing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Se-Yun Um , Sangshin Oh , Kyungguen Byun , Inseon Jang , Chunghyun Ahn , Hong-Goo Kang

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) approaches generally require a huge number of high quality speech data, which makes it difficult to obtain such a dataset with extra emotion labels. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for emotional TTS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Xiong Cai , Dongyang Dai , Zhiyong Wu , Xiang Li , Jingbei Li , Helen Meng

Achieving precise and controllable emotional expression is crucial for producing natural and context-appropriate speech in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. However, many emotion-aware TTS systems, including large language model (LLM)-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Li Zhou , Hao Jiang , Junjie Li , Tianrui Wang , Haizhou Li

Emotional text-to-speech (E-TTS) is central to creating natural and trustworthy human-computer interaction. Existing systems typically rely on sentence-level control through predefined labels, reference audio, or natural language prompts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sirui Wang , Andong Chen , Tiejun Zhao

Emotional text-to-speech (TTS) systems sturggle to capture the full spectrum of human emotions due to the inherent complexity of emotional expressions and the limited coverage of existing emotion labels. To address this, we propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Kun Zhou , You Zhang , Dianwen Ng , Shengkui Zhao , Hao Wang , Bin Ma

Speech emotion conversion is the task of converting the expressed emotion of a spoken utterance to a target emotion while preserving the lexical content and speaker identity. While most existing works in speech emotion conversion rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Navin Raj Prabhu , Bunlong Lay , Simon Welker , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock , Timo Gerkmann

Emotional text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) aims to generate realistic emotional speech from input text. However, quantitatively controlling multi-level emotion rendering remains challenging. In this paper, we propose a flow-matching based…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Sho Inoue , Kun Zhou , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

While recent advances in Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology produce natural and expressive speech, they lack the option for users to select emotion and control intensity. We propose EmoKnob, a framework that allows fine-grained emotion control…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Haozhe Chen , Run Chen , Julia Hirschberg

State-of-the-art speech synthesis models try to get as close as possible to the human voice. Hence, modelling emotions is an essential part of Text-To-Speech (TTS) research. In our work, we selected FastSpeech2 as the starting point and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Daria Diatlova , Vitaly Shutov

Humans can effortlessly modify various prosodic attributes, such as the placement of stress and the intensity of sentiment, to convey a specific emotion while maintaining consistent linguistic content. Motivated by this capability, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Leyuan Qu , Wei Wang , Cornelius Weber , Pengcheng Yue , Taihao Li , Stefan Wermter

Advances in text-to-speech (TTS) technology have significantly improved the quality of generated speech, closely matching the timbre and intonation of the target speaker. However, due to the inherent complexity of human emotional…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Weizhen Bian , Yubo Zhou , Kaitai Zhang , Xiaohan Gu

In this project, we aim to build a Text-to-Speech system able to produce speech with a controllable emotional expressiveness. We propose a methodology for solving this problem in three main steps. The first is the collection of emotional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-08 Noé Tits
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